Department Head and Marienthal Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, and his co-author, Guillermo Escaño (Villanova University, Department of Sociology and Criminology), are the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s S

Our own Bill Pridemore is this year’s winner of the American Society of Criminology’s Herbert Bloch Award. This is an annual discipline-wide award from the primary professional organization in the field.

Congratulations to Zara Jillani, who has received the Graduate Student Investigator Award from the ASA Social Psychology Section.

Fresh off the press! Dr. Peng Huang has a new solo-authored paper titled “Micro–Macro Analysis of Network Change”, published in Social Networks.Highlights:

We are excited to announce that Gillian Slee has received the Law & Society Association Article Prize for 2026 for her paper titled "Home but not free: Rule-breaking, withdrawal, and dignity in reentry".